Collar



(No Model.)

E.K.BETTS.Y

COLLAR.

Patented Feb. 1, '1898.

Nrrn TATES ATENT OFFICE.

COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,238, dated February 1, 1898.

I Application filed March 1897. Serial No. 628,401. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR K. Burrs, of the city of Lansingburg, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in High Turn-Down Collars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a certain new and usefulimprovementin high turn-down collars which are in use to-day, having for its object to improve the appearance of the collar and to insure the retention of its shape when being worn.

With this object in view the invention consists in a turn-down collar having one end of its neckband extended beyond one end of the body and curved upward above the foldline of the collar, the said end being adapted to enter the opposite end of the body and take a bearing in the fold thereof, thereby serving not only as a bridge between the two ends of the collar, but also serving as a locking-piece, which holds the two ends of the collar in proper relation to each other.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification and in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective-View drawing of a collar embodying my improvement, the two ends being brought together in the positions they occupy while the collar is being worn; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the collar with the ends of the collar separated.

Similar letters of reference design ate corresponding parts in both figures.

A designates the band of the collar, and B the body. The shape of that portion of the band which is Within the body is immaterial, and the same remark applies to the body; but it is intended that both shall be suitable for one of the high turn-down collars which are now in common use.

My invention residesin the end portions of the band. The end portion a of the band is shown as curved upward above the fold-line at the upper edge of the collar and extended far enough beyond the contiguous end of the body of the collar so that it may enter the space between the opposite end of the body of the. collar and the adjacent portion of the band, and its upper edge bears against the collar at the bend thereof. This end a of the band therefore forms a bridge extending between the two extremities of the body and closing the space between them, and by having its edge bear against the collar at its fold the two ends of the collar are maintained in proper relation. It also constitutes a locking-piece, for'it rests in the fold between the body and the band of the collar and is held there when fastened to a shirt-band by a button. It will be seen that the end a of the band is at the top edge inclined downwardly or chaml'ered off, so that it will not be exposed to View. The usualbuttonholes a a are formed in the end portions of the band of the collar and, as will be seen by the drawings, they are close to the lower edge. There is the usual buttonhole in the back.

What I claim is- Y As a new article of manufacture, a turndown collar having one end of its neckband extended beyond an end of the body of the collar and curved upward above the fold-line of the collar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDGAR K. BETTS.

Witnesses:

J AS. M. SNYDER, S. D. NICHOLL. 

